Posts by Danielle
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There Will Be Blood
Man, everyone loves this film. I am so wary, because my hatred for Magnolia knew no bounds. Just the thought of that film makes me viscerally angry. Gack.
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We went out last night to a screening of F.W. Murnau's silent masterpiece 'Sunrise' (1927)
Oh, I love that film! Yay for Hamilton.
And also, yay for the Auckland zoo, kazoo solos, bopping around to 'Bright Grey', and note-perfectly badass covers of 'Love is the Drug'. Lumber up, limbo down.
(I assume any news of Finn will be posted here? Hope so.)
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Anyone else got any "I did P and I'm OK" stories?
I tried it a couple of times in the US about ten years ago and thought it was no fun at all. So I never bothered with it after that.
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I saw the Liam Finn show (he currently looks like a tiny Levon Helm, amirite?) and will be at the Phoenix Foundation one too. Go the zoo.
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you're far too difficult, its over.
Whether or not you would hypothetically date my 'gullible' and 'undemanding' ass is thunderously irrelevant to this discussion, dude.
Also, thank you, Peter!
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Gosh, what an irritating post that was, robbery: I feel so patronised.
It's not that I'm 'undemanding' - on the contrary, I'm very demanding of my music - but I think what I want from that music is rather different from what you want. Often, I'm about feel and beats - so 'My Love', with that badass Timbaland production with all those juddering synths, and the falsetto verses, and the call-and-response - I mean, that's a lot of the things I'm going to love in a song, right there. And in fact I think you could trace a line right back to old-school Stax-level soul from 'My Love', if you're talking about 'authenticity' - but my point is that the song doesn't need those kind of bone fides, and people who are so intent on that kind of thing are totally missing the point. Peter is right on about his quote from 'Tutti Frutti' - pop music is mostly about dancing and fucking (or revenge and guilt, to quote Costello, another great pop-music-poser). It doesn't need to be about anything else. It can be great art without 'authenticity' or even conventional songwriting (and I love conventional songwriting - my favourite band is The Beatles, for god's sake). None of that 'pop' vs 'real music' stuff matters at all, to me, and I don't care if someone 'means it, maaaan' or not. Lie to me, pop-music-makers. I'm cool with it.
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Hmmm. I believe robbery may be... slightly rockist.
It should be noted that I find plenty to connect with in all sorts of 'manufactured' music (I once wrote a giant rant listing all the things I adore about Justin Timberlake's 'My Love'), and that since popular music is, fundamentally, all artifice, this idea of 'authenticity' or 'non-packaged' music is, to me, kind of completely bogus, isn't it? It's all an act, a projection... the authenticity is almost irrelevant. If you feel something when listening to it, then it's authentic for *you*.
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a testament to the validity of the grammies (which have a glorious history of getting it oh so wrong).
As we know, A Taste of Honey ('Boogie Oogie Oogie') beat Elvis Costello for best new artist, 1978!
I only recently found out that Young MC (of 'Bust a Move' fame) wrote both of Tone Loc's hits. Makes sense.
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I had to wonder what pathetic salary he was on that he couldn't manage it.
Banks will let you borrow, what... four times your wage before tax? That would mean he'd have to be earning about... $60,000 a year? (Assuming his wife didn't have a wage-earning job.) Is that a 'pathetic salary'?
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a debut culture
This is my favourite typo of the week so far. I have a vision of all of us in white frocks and gloves, entering the season/marriage market...